In this section, you will get a look at how to cook some of your favorite Italian dishes. Italian food is hearty and inexpensive with a variety of dishes being possible just by knowing how to boil pasta. Italian dishes are traditionally simple in their preparation but lean on high quality ingredients and cooking skill for the extra flavor. You will get an overview of all of the varieties of easy pasta dishes you can make and feed yourself for a whole week.
Baked spaghetti is easy to make, delicious, and very filling. With only 45-50 minutes of prep time (most of which is waiting for it to bake), you can keep yourself fed for nearly a week (6 servings per batch) with a hearty dish full of traditional Italian flavors. This dish is perfect for the winter when you need something warm but you don’t have time to cook all week
WARNING: This recipe contains dairy products,
do not consume if you are lactose intolerant.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). > NOTE: Be sure to do this first as it will take some time for your oven to heat up. You don’t need to do anything else to stop it from heating, it will stay at 350 degrees on its own.
Once the first bubble surfaces, break the uncooked spaghetti in half and drop it in the pot. > CAUTION: Do not put your hands over the steam coming off of the water. You can get burns from steam similar to those from touching hot surfaces.
Strain the spaghetti over your sink and then add it back to to the pot. Add the tablespoon of butter to the spaghetti and stir it in until it melts. This ensures that the spaghetti will not clump up. > CAUTION: You will want to lit the boiling die down a little before straining the spaghetti as a good amount of steam will be released when the water makes contact with the sink. The cooler the water is the cooler the steam will be.
Place the skillet on another large burner set to medium-high and begin cooking your ground beef in the skillet. Place the whole patty in the skillet and break up the ground beef with your wooden spoon so that the ground beef is evenly dispersed in the skillet. You want all of the ground beef to be in contact with the skillet. > CAUTION: Place the skillet so the handle is pointed away from you. You don’t want to accidentally bump the handle and knock the contents of the skillet all over the floor.
Lower the heat to low setting and add the marinara sauce. Mix the sauce and the ground beef thoroughly. Let the sauce simmer (slight bubbling of the surface) for 2-3 minutes. > NOTE: If you feel your ground beef is close to overcooked, aim for 2 minutes rather than 3 as the simmering will continue to cook your ground beef.
Pour your meat sauce into the large pot containing the cooked spaghetti. Add in your grated Parmesan before thoroughly mixing the sauce and spaghetti using the perforated spoon. Be sure to mix the entire pot so that the sauce is distributed evenly over all of the pasta.
Store this dish either in the dish it was baked in or a smaller bowl covered with plastic wrap. Keep refrigerated. This dish contains 6 servings but it should not be kept past 6 days time.
Author: Yang Liu
In this section, you will know the overview about the chinese food and learn how to cook them. There are too many types of chinese food which are fast and inexpensive. You will get the recipe and materilas of the Boiled beef.
This dish was created by Sichuan Zigong famous chef Fan Ji’an. Fan Ji’an is good at summing up experience in cooking practice and insisting on improving innovation. For example, the soup is made from boiled beef. It is cooked with boiled beef. It is seasoned with salt, soy sauce, chili and pepper. It is placed in a dish and eaten. In the 1930s, he improved the soup of boiled beef into boiled beef. The raw materials and production process were: beef flakes, vegetable or lettuce, red and white radish as accessories; salt, soy sauce, chili Mix the pepper and starch with the beef slices, cook in the pot with the leeks or lettuce slices, add the broth and onions, master the heat, and cook the beef until it is stretched and shiny. Cooked oil is ready. The characteristics of boiled beef are: tender meat, delicious and delicious, oily but not greasy, spicy, is the finest food with wine and rice, and become Sichuan famous dish with strong local flavor. Boiled beef was selected for “Chinese recipes” in 1981.[https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/shui-zhu-beef/]
My audience is off-campus students or someone who truly love spicy food. In addition, my audenice is also someone who wants to save money on food but they want to make delicious food.
This is a finished dish of Boiled beef.
Time: 10-30 minutes Difficulty: side dishes (intermediate)
Beef is rich in protein, and its amino acid composition is closer to human needs than pork, which can improve the body’s ability to resist disease. It is suitable for the growth and development of the body, as well as for people who are recuperated after surgery and disease, in addition to blood loss and tissue repair.Cold winter beef, has the role of warm stomach, winter tonic.According to Chinese medicine, beef can nourish the spleen and stomach, strengthen bones and muscles, relieve phlegm and wind, and relieve thirst and saliva. It is suitable for people with depression, shortness of breath, soft bones and muscles, anemia, and yellow eyes.
In this section, you will learn how to cook some of your favorite American dishes. American food is fast and inexpensive with a variety of dishes being possible by knowing some simple techniques. American food is focused on comfort food and savory ingredients. You will get an overview of all of the varieties of dishes you can make and fix those hunger needs.
Today we are going to be making an american classic mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is a household favorite of many children and starving college students across the world. This simple yet tasty pasta dish can provide you quick calories in the middle of your all night study session.
WARNING: This recipe contains dairy products,
do not consume if you are lactose intolerant.
Place the medium pot on a large burner on the stove and slowly pour the cold milk into the pot. Then, turn the stove on to medium heat.
CAUTION: Never touch a burner with your hands when it is on or has been recently used. When using the stove always be mindful of which burner you have turned on.
Measure and add the flour into the medium pot with the milk and proceed to whisk them until the flour is no longer lumpy.
Note: A whisk is a common kitchen tool that seems obvious to use, but can be misleading. When talking about whisking the milk it is advised to use a side to side motion as referenced by the arrows in the diagram. Some people may use a beating or stirring motion, but it is recommended to move your whisk side to side until the desired thickness is reached.
Once the flour and milk are whisked properly add slowly add slices of cheese one at a time until they melt. While they are melting continue to whisk the mixture. Once the slice of cheese melts continue to repeat until all the cheese is melted in the medium pot.
Note: While you are melting the cheese you can simultaneously cook the pasta shells in step 4 to save you time.
Fill most of the large pot up with water (~3/4 full) and place it onto the stove beside the medium pot of milk/flour/cheese. Now, turn on the burner for the large pot on high heat. After 3 minutes depending on your stove your water should be at a rolling boil.
Note: Placing a lid on top of your pot of water can speed up the boiling process. However, once the water is at a rolling boil be sure to remove the lid.
Caution: Turning on the burner to a high heat can be dangerous and may cause some water to overflow when boiling. Be sure to monitor the water while cooking and if this situation occurs pour out some of the water until it is no longer boiling over the top.
The term rolling boil means when so many bubbles are being produced so fast from the bottom of the pot, that stirring won’t impact their production. The bubbles get to be very large as seen in the photo above.
Once the water is at a rolling boil add the shells pasta to the large pot and lower the burner to medium heat. The pasta should take ~12 minutes to cook, but it varies depending on heat and exact amount of water or pasta.
The pasta on the right side of the image is raw pasta and is not edible. However, if cooked for the proper amount of time it should look like the pasta on the left side of the image. When cooking your pasta check every couple of minutes after ten minutes to see if your pasta is completely cooked.
Now turn off the heat, drain your pasta from the large pot by using the large strainer.
Note: To drain your pasta you must take your pasta from the large pot and place it into the strainer as seen above. Before you do this you should have your strainer in the sink so that all the water drains into the sink. After you have finished draining your pasta you can place the strainer with pasta inside on top of your large pot.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. While your oven is waiting to heat up add the cooked pasta and drained pasta into a large baking pan. After the pasta has been put into the pan add the cheese sauce on top of the pasta.
Note: If you are looking for a way to make this dish a bit healthier or add some flavor consider adding some broccoli to your mac and cheese. This can be done by cutting up broccoli into small pieces and adding it your baking tray before it is placed into the oven.
Once your oven is preheated then you may place your baking tray into the oven for 25 minutes
Note: While the mac and cheese is cooking in the even it advised for you to start cleaning up all the kitchenware and other items used while making this dish.
Carefully remove your mac and cheese from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes. After this you are now ready to serve your delicious mac and cheese. Typically it is served using a large serving spoon and plates, but these are optional. You can store your meal by covering the top of the baking tray with tin foil and putting it in the refrigerator.
Caution: When removing items from the oven you should use oven mitts to prevent yourself from burning your hands.
This list of recipes are all tailored towards Mexican or hispanic style meals. These dishes will contain ingredients that are affordable and healthy at the same time. The following recipes will not be time consuming, and will be easy to follow for off campus college students that are learning how to cook.
Chicken or beef tacos are some of the most common Mexican dishes, because they are not just delicious and healthy, but easy to make as well. This is a very generic recipe designed to minimize accidental errors and time consumed making the dish.
This entire recipe can be finished in less than 30 minutes.
Warning- This recipe contains dairy products. Do not consume if you are lactose and tolerant.
Guacamole is a very popular Mexican side dish and appetizer, because it is very healthy, tasty, and easy to make. It is also a great additional ingredient on tacos, burritos, nachos, and other Mexican dishes.
This recipe takes roughly 10 minutes to make, and an additional 10 minutes for a waiting period to let different flavors mix with each other.
Queso, like guacamole, can be a very delicious additional ingredient to many different Mexican dishes. It may not be as healthy as guacamole, but it can also be a great celebratory appetizer for special occasions.
This recipe takes about 20 minutes to complete.
Cook bacon to medium crispness in pan
Caution- Be vigilant about crackling bacon grease on pan, can lead to minor burns on skin. If you have never cooked bacon before, heat pan to medium heat on stove, and place three strips of bacon spaced far enough apart from each other, so they are not touching. Cook strips for about 5 minutes while flipping each strip every minute.
Take out bowl with oven mitts and stir mixture
Caution- Make sure to wear oven mitts, because the bowl can cause minor skin burns
Cut tomato into small square pieces.
Note- Use sharp enough knife to cut straight squares without smashing tomato.
Place bacon and tomato pieces into bowl and stir thoroughly